Za-Chary wrote:
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Prime689 wrote:
Secondly, I don't think that AFD changes are necessarily distracting for students – they're just trivial and may not be as conspicuous as you think.
Perhaps an educator could weigh in here to see whether such features have been distracting before.

Aren't you an educator? Would you allow students to use the Scratch site for their school assignments?

Za-Chary wrote:
Prime689 wrote:
In the extreme case, schools are better off instructing students to download offline Scratch, simply since the site was deemed “too distracting” for students. The homepage looks like one of those offline game sites that students would play on school PCs.
It's better for schools to restrict an online educational community and prevent teachers from using Teacher Accounts just so a feature can exist for 6 more days out of the year?

You got the point wrong. My point is that Scratch, in general, does cater to an audience looking for a fun site, not necessarily those looking for an educational site. That fact is true for every day in a year. If a school thinks that the Scratch website is too distracting because it seems more of an entertainment site rather than an educational one, then they discourage accessing the Scratch site for students.